My AuDHD kid (in their 20s) sleeps like a brick and always has. That kid has perfect sleep regulation and always has. I’m so envious.

For Haskell to land that low on the list tells me they either couldn’t find a good Haskell programmer and/or weren’t using GHC.

I can’t help but doubt that it was actually protesters who did this. LAPD and ICE would have been tripping over themselves at the opportunity to use deadly force against someone committing a felony, and the FBI put someone on the most wanted list over dinging a police vehicle.

Protesters know that there are surveillance cameras everywhere. Why would they burn a couple of Waymos and do literally nothing about the readily visible cameras literally everywhere around them?

On the other hand, both ICE and LAPD need the imagery of a city on fire to sell their necessity.

This is absolutely true. The women who actually prefer 7+ inches are rare, and most explicitly seeking it haven’t actually experienced it. My girl prefers 5 or smaller because we can’t do the things she enjoys at my size.

The size you’re describing isn’t small enough to even make jokes about. Believe me, I’ve heard women joke about size and it’s the 2 inches or less while erect range; and even then it’s about bad hookups or guys that have been awful to them.
Girls that see random flaccid dick regularly are even less likely to joke about size.

More likely that she was smiling because now she knows you know her friend which means you have a shared outside connection.

The size you describe isn’t small enough to merit being called small. It’s barely below the statistical mean.

What’s more is that waxers are well aware that growers exist, and (at least in my area) that’s mostly what they see. It wouldn’t even be cause for comment. The kinds of things they even bother telling each other about are like people who want fancy patterns waxed, or who have awful smelling active infections and have to be told to go get treated and come back. Occasionally they might talk about big tough guys who end up weeping like a baby (not just tears in the eyes, but bawling), or when they personally make mistakes.

At most your aesthetician told her that you got waxed and how she found out there was a connection. If your coworker bothered asking about your size she’d have gotten the usual response of, “who knows? You can never really tell during waxing because pain and fear of pain shrink things.”

Source: was married to an aesthetician for 10 years.

This doesn’t read as just California. It’s the whole country.

Big same on the acts of selflessness. Especially over the last few years…

I’m exactly like you’re describing and a little older than you (44). Songs, TV shows, movies, animated series. It’s a trivial feat to make me tear up at pretty much anything someone might consider touching.

I suppose it’s outside of the statistical norm for our demographic, but I wouldn’t say there’s anything wrong with it. We feel things and we express those feelings when we have them. I’d argue it’s a lot healthier than what the statistical mean of our cohort does.

There are good reasons to hide what’s going on inside. Some are simply not prepared: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIKJ6n-vSKt/

This seems like one of the areas where LLM generative AI could actually be a good thing. It would not be difficult to have such a system desensationalize the media we consume. It’d still be propaganda, but it would largely be toothless. Propaganda relies heavily on appeals to our fears and other emotions. Put it through a sieve that filters most of that out and it becomes much less engaging.

I hadn’t thought about it until reading your comment here but I accidentally raised my GenZ kids this way. If I hadn’t done this I never would have seen my eldest heading down the misogynist edgelord path and intervened.

The only decent computer in the house was in the living room, and they had clunky retired elementary school computers in their rooms running Linux and Open Office so they could work on homework (no internet, USB drive to save homework and send from family computer). It wasn’t because I sought to keep them from using the internet privately, it was because we couldn’t really afford better.

I think the proliferation of videos as primary information sources is a huge part of how propaganda and disinformation became so effective and powerful. It’s why we’ve done a collective nosedive into regressive politics and can no longer agree on the objective facts regarding… well… anything!

Information delivered by video tends to be trusted on the way it’s delivered rather than the content itself. So we’re thinking less critically about what we choose to believe.

I love seeing comments like yours where people change some of their thinking as a result of online discussion.

I was starting to feel like no one listens to understand and only listen to respond, and comments like this help lift me out of that perspective.

Half of an ortholinear split keyboard and a trackball that’s missing the ball.

Princess Bubblegum taught me that this is how perfect cheese is made

A thought for why it may have been easier for you to regularly use your paper journal while not maintaining the digital journal: it may be a matter of visual cuing.

With the paper journal it sits somewhere that you’ll see it regularly, probably along your route to bed. Seeing the journal may have been your mental cue to write in it, as opposed to simple routine or habit. You don’t get the same kind of cue from a digital journal because even a set reminder is no different from the bevy of notifications your phone gives you throughout the day.

Something that could help you keep up with your digital journal is to start keeping a physical journal in the same place you kept your old one. Maybe put an NFC tag in it that just launches your digital journal when scanned/tapped. Then you’ll still have that visual cue and habit reaction force to keep you journaling.

This is the story I came to this thread for. Amazing! Thanks for posting!

A thought: any ai-image detector is a defacto trainer for ai-image generators. It necessarily becomes a kind of arms race in the same way that spam generators test their payloads against spam filters.